Salesforce Senior Developer (Senior Associate, Technology)

1567 days ago

Location
London, ENG, GB
Role
Developer
Contract
Permanent
Salary
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Company Description
Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description
As a Salesforce Senior Developer you will work as a part of an agile team to deliver top-class applications on the Salesforce platform and contribute to the development of the Publicis Sapient Salesforce practice.Your ImpactYour impact will be threefold:Providing technical leadership and guidance in a development team

Be responsible for the robustness, scalability and reusability of the code developed by the team
Run technical workshops and ensure technical requirements are properly identified and gathered
Estimate, design and oversee large development stories, complex integrations and epics
Oversee the assignment of stories and tasks within the team
Ensure stories, epics, estimates and development activities are properly tracked by the team
Proactively identify, address and mitigate technical risks and impediments
Enforce technical standards, training and coaching developers and other team members
Discuss technical solutions and complex integrations with key project stakeholders
Provide technical and design guidance for more complex solutions
Review and evaluate the code quality amongst all developers

Guaranteeing technical health, robust software development lifecycle and overall technical success of a solution

Assess and monitor the overall health of an implementation
Monitor progress, velocity, regressions and other quality metrics for the development team
Identify technical and resource risks factors and alert the Technical Lead and the Project Manager
Ensure code review take place regularly as part of the development lifecycle
Make sure code and configuration items are tracked in the Version Control System
Plan and oversee releases to production environments anticipating, identifying and mitigating deployment risks
Orchestrate deployment activities across all the parties involved (client, other vendors, etc)
Ensure effective Continuous Integration is in place and monitor build automation on a daily basis
Take responsibility for clear, concise and comprehensive technical documentation for code, architecture and integrations
Discuss and document lessons learnt, taking the relevant actions to drive continuous improvement within the team

Contributing to the development practice

Document lessons learnt to drive continuous improvement within the practice
Participate in the hiring process for selecting the best developers to join the company
Contribute to Sapient i7 Technical Standards
Participate in the internal training and onboarding program by contributing and delivering technical training

Qualifications
Your skills & experience

Salesforce Certified Platform Developer 1 and 2
Extensive consultancy and professional software development experience
Experienced with both agile and waterfall development projects

Behavioural Skills

Attention to detail
Coaching/mentoring
Client focus and a Team player
Drive and passion
Self-challenging and leadership mindset

Technical Skills

Apex, Visualforce, SOQL, SOSL
HTML, Javascript, jQuery, AngularJS or other Javascript MVC frameworks
XML, JSON, Web Services, REST
Familiar with middleware and enterprise integration patterns
Data modelling and relational databases
Good knowledge of git or mercurial
Good knowledge of object-oriented design and design patterns
Familiar with branching strategies and general source control effectiveness
Good knowledge of software development lifecycle and continuous integration
Comprehensive knowledge of UML
Familiar with Atlassian suite (Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Confluence)

Additional Information
Benefits

We have got you and your family covered with 25 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), life assurance, dental insurance, income protection, critical illness cover, private healthcare for you AND your family (pre-existing conditions included), and a pension
We know the importance of health and wellbeing so offer you extensive retail discount offers and further reimbursement towards activities that contribute to a healthier lifestyle
Our beautiful Turnmill office isn’t currently open to meet over complimentary barista-made coffee but our teams have been busy replicating face-to-face social activities through learning languages virtually, yoga sessions, having a laugh at our online summer fairs and so much more
We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms
Diversity and inclusion aren't just buzzwords. We offer an inclusive environment through our inspirational business resource groups and work with you to give back to the local community through CSR efforts